Silver Linings Playbook, the Philly-centric new film that puts Eagles fans front-and-center, continues to garner nationwide praise. The movie is based on a novel Matthew Quick,
a former Haddonfield Memorial High teacher. Grantland reserves special praise for the movie's perspective on sports fandom.
The ways in which Pat, in his pitiable mix of out-of-control rage and deranged optimism, is a product of his struggling underdog city and the maddening football franchise that it hosts will probably be obvious to most readers of this site and lost on a solid percentage of non-sports fans who go see the movie. You have to know Philly, know the Eagles to really get it, how each of these characters is simultaneously badly scarred and up for more punishment. Silver Linings Playbook is a few different movies at once, but one of those movies is about the complicated interplay between a city's sports teams and a city's citizens, the way that over time the two start resembling one another.
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